{"id":25558,"date":"2020-12-08T15:15:00","date_gmt":"2020-12-08T06:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2020\/dec\/08\/indias-biggest-challenge-how-to-vaccinate-13bn-people-against-covid-19"},"modified":"2020-12-08T15:15:00","modified_gmt":"2020-12-08T06:15:00","slug":"indias-biggest-challenge-how-to-vaccinate-1-3bn-people-against-covid-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=25558","title":{"rendered":"India&#8217;s biggest challenge: how to vaccinate 1.3bn people against Covid-19?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Analysis: Even with the world\u2019s largest vaccination scheme already in place, the distribution at this scale has huge potential pitfalls<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/live\/2020\/dec\/07\/coronavirus-live-news-giuliani-tests-positive-for-covid-california-braces-for-lockdown\">Coronavirus &#8211; latest updates<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/coronavirus-outbreak\">See all out coronavirus coverage<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>India\u2019s claim to fame is staggering scale of its general elections, with 900 million voters mobilised across 1 million polling stations, to choose from 8,000 candidates across a landmass spanning 2,000 miles north to south and pretty much the same east to west.<\/p>\n<p>But now the country has to go one better. India must vaccinate 1.3bn people against Covid-19 \u2013 twice and twice as fast. With <a href=\"https:\/\/covid19.who.int\/region\/searo\/country\/in\">more than 9 million confirmed cases<\/a> of coronavirus and a battered economy, how will the country meet this challenge?<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2020\/dec\/08\/indias-biggest-challenge-how-to-vaccinate-13bn-people-against-covid-19\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Analysis: Even with the world\u2019s largest vaccination scheme already in place, the distribution at this scale has huge potential pitfallsCoronavirus &#8211; latest updatesSee all out coronavirus coverageIndia\u2019s claim to fame is staggering scale of its general &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":589,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1066,59,566,62,914,61,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25558","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-coronavirus","category-global-development","category-global-health","category-india","category-infectious-diseases","category-south-and-central-asia","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25558","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/589"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25558"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25558\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25559,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25558\/revisions\/25559"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25558"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25558"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25558"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}